The trailer for the third Deadpool movie dropped on Monday morning. Last summer, pictures came out of Hugh Jackman filming alongside Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds. He was wearing a yellow Wolverine suit that’s more comic-book accurate, setting off speculation about the size of his role and which timeline’s Logan we’d be getting. The teaser trailer, released in February, revealed that the movie is titled Deadpool & Wolverine. The teaser was Deadpool-heavy, showing that Wade Wilson’s been recruited to work with the TVA (Time Variance Association, aka the agency that was central to Loki), which officially ties it into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The full trailer features both lead characters and gives us a lot more insight into the Wolverine of it all. This Logan is not liked in his world, having done something to “let it down.” Deadpool explains that he needs Logan’s help to save his own Universe. At some point, the characters are fighting in the Void, the point at the end of time where everything collides and then stops (also central to both seasons of Loki). And finally, the villain is confirmed to be Professor X’s evil twin/clone, Cassandra Nova. You can watch the trailer below, but be aware that it’s NSFW.

Marvel Studios released a new trailer for the pair’s upcoming superhero movie Deadpool & Wolverine on April 22, further teasing the much hyped third Deadpool movie with footage set to Madonna’s 1989 hit “Like a Prayer.”

After a first teaser trailer for the movie released in February previewed only a glimpse at Jackman’s iconic X-Men character Logan / Wolverine, the new trailer shows Reynolds’ character Wade Wilson – a.k.a. the fourth-wall breaking superhero Deadpool — approach Wolverine at a bar to recruit him to help save the world.

After something of a fight between the two characters, Deadpool learns through Matthew Macfadyen’s mysterious character that this version of Wolverine failed in his past adventures with the X-Men. Deadpool eventually appears to recruit the jaded superhero to enlist him on a third action-packed adventure.

Deadpool & Wolverine marks the series’ first entry within the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the previous films in the series were produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, prior to Disney’s purchase of the studio and the rights to incorporate Deadpool and other X-Men characters into Marvel Studios’ shared universe.

Real-life friends Reynolds and Jackman revealed that Jackman is reprising his role as Wolverine back in September 2022. The pair quickly specified that Deadpool & Wolverine will not negate the events of 2017’s Logan, which previously appeared to be the final time Jackman intended to play the character, whom he first suited up as in 2000’s X-Men.

Aside from Reynolds, Jackman and Macfadyen, the third Deadpool movie also stars Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams and Karan Soni. Corrin, whom Reynolds announced as a costar back in February 2023 in a post he shared on X, briefly appears in the trailer for confrontations with Wolverine and Deadpool, at one point remarking that “boys are so silly.”

The film is directed by Shawn Levy; he and Reynolds collaborated on the movie’s script along with screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Zeb Wells.

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Alright, so what timeline do you think this Wolverine is from? He looks age about the same as he did in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but the part in the trailer about his claws not fully working does tie into the part in Logan where the same is happening, only more advanced. So, I feel confident saying that we’re seeing a middle-aged Logan. And what did he do to let his world down? Something we’ve seen before, something obscure from the comics, or something brand new altogether? Does that final shot of the two of them jumping into a time portal mean that Wong or Doctor Strange are also going to be in the movie? What about an Ant-Man sighting since you see his giant helmet in the Void? We also get a shot of Lady Deathstrike from X2: X-Men United, and since she presumably died at the end of that movie, she also must be from a different timeline. As for the use of “Like a Prayer,” in the trailer, it fits perfectly.

I have to admit, I am way more interested in seeing this movie than I was a few weeks ago, and that’s because of X-Men ‘97 on Disney+. It set us off on an X-Men kick in general. We’ve been rewatching the original animated series. We also rewatched X2 over the weekend and are probably going to rewatch Logan next weekend. So yeah, knowing this is a Deadpool *and* Wolverine buddy movie – which is 100,000% not appropriate for kids – has me a little more excited than I thought I’d be. Deadpool & Wolverine will be in theaters on July 26.

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